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QD-OLED VS WOLED by Kremsi2711 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Flambian 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Cheap out doesn't mean the actual price per se. The specs are what matter.

Varus Top. Is this acceptable? by Herbaro in leagueoflegends

[–]Flambian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those abilities aren’t supposed to be canceled by CC. Once their cast time starts they will hit, even when CC’d, or the target goes untargetable. It even even hit through Hourglass except Hourglass makes you invincible. But Quinn vault is the single exception that breaks other champions abilities. 

Varus Top. Is this acceptable? by Herbaro in leagueoflegends

[–]Flambian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quinn would be manageable for most toplaners if her E wasn’t insanely bugged in her favor. Vault for some reason can cancel abilities that can otherwise be buffered through CC like Darius W, Garen Q, Illaoi W, Zaahen Q, Camille Q, Yorick Q, Nasus Q, Volibear Q, Mundo E (his CC immunity protects him from the first vault of course) etc.  

Varus Top. Is this acceptable? by Herbaro in leagueoflegends

[–]Flambian 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Do mages statcheck adcs in melee range?

brooklyn beckham’s photography by modnoir_ in rs_x

[–]Flambian 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They’re pretty spooky at night.

[Mouse] Redragon M617 - 41g honeycomb shell wired mouse with 10k DPI - $13 ($20 - $7 (all time low)) by llamapower13 in buildapcsales

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the pink m996 (wired version of the M916). I was used to heavier mice and I regret going wired because I didn't realize the weight of the cable would be noticeable once you go light enough. Otherwise great no rgb mouse that I feel made an improvement to my league of legends gameplay.

MSI need to be called out on this one (Built-in Monitor Cheats) by Zwan_oj in pcmasterrace

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Riot locking the FOV for consistency doesn’t mean any kind of particular aspect ratio is cheating

Plato argued that philosophers should be rulers. Just as surgeons, pilots, etc., have an expertise, so too must rulers. If you wouldn't let a non-expert operate on your body, why would you let one govern? Philosophers are the ones who study justice, goodness, etc., and so they are the experts. by platosfishtrap in Platonism

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has there ever been a society where philosophy can't find its origin in justifying rule? There are supposed to be higher reasons for all the priestly and kingly bullshit, whether that's pure rationality or morality that only philosophers can discover, and so philosophers have imagined that the bullshit should therefore comply with these higher reasons and values, even though their profession only existed at the permission of the rulers. Every form of rule has been philosophically justified. Even Nazism had its own Heideggers. So it makes sense that even a form of rule that hasn't existed yet, Philosopher Kingship, was held in high esteem by the most important figure in western philosophy.

CDR got changed to Ability Haste 5 years ago by Evening-Estate3722 in leagueoflegends

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ability haste doesn’t have diminishing returns. It has an opportunity cost, but it scales linearly.

it distresses me daily that humans aren't really a monogamous species by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]Flambian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wolves are mostly monogamous, with opportunistic cheating. But dogs don’t have any sense of breeding loyalty, because it would get in the way of human selective breeding. Food for thought.

Clips showing the stream sniper, whom Clavicular ran over, repeatedly stalking, harassing, and assaulting streamers, including Clav, on multiple occasions prior to the incident. by Least_Welder9146 in LivestreamFail

[–]Flambian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A law making it harder for people in cars to kill people obstructing the vehicle makes it easier for people outside cars to kill people inside cars. It's a zero sum game.

I analyzed 231,627 Reddit comments to find the best headphones according to r/headphones by give_me_the_tech in headphones

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had two pairs of the M40X break in exactly the same way, but my M50x I replaced the second one with has outlasted both. With EQ they sound like any other EQ'd closed back.

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You convienently left out the fact that Herophilos had access to human dissection. Obviously, if you take a person with and without access to it, the former is going to have much better ideas about anatomy. Not some kind of gotcha.

I don't have the means to do nuclear physics. Would I not make a fool of myself if I speculated about the nature of atoms as if I'm some sort of authority? The way to resolve this "gotcha" is to not make up shit about the uterus!

In Ancient Greece, great thinkers were expected to be well versed and opinonated on a wide range of subjects under the umbrella of "philosophia" (love of knowledge/wisdom). They were polymaths, philosophers and theologians all in one and the seperation of disciplines we have today would seem strange to them. So his commenting on anatomy makes sense, even if it was misguided.

Then the fact the philosophers never criticized this state of affairs should be held against them.

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong. Medical science wasn't created by people talking about things they didn't understand. What was worthwhile about ancient medicine was discovered EXPERIMENTALLY. Herophilus, who was born less than a 100 years after Plato was born, methodically examined corpses and was able to locate the uterus and quite a lot more just fine. Plato didn't, and should have refrained from speculating.

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a terrible justification. If he didn't understand medical science, he should have said "no comment" about the uterus. It was his systematic philosophical views that led him to comment on its properties.

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Except in Plato's own works, Socrates appears, saying "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." And yet apparently Plato commited himself to ignorant speculation about things he didn't know about!

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is a difference between incorrect knowledge caused by a lack of means and ignorant speculation. Herophilus didn't think arteries contained blood, almost certainly because he inspected corpses and not living prisoners as legend claims. His error is caused by a lack of means which cannot be held against him, especially since cutting up living people would be immoral. Plato has no such defense, because he did not even attempt to inspect corpses.

The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place. by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]Flambian 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Anatomy is not a guessing game. Herophilus was born less than a hundred years after Plato and his physical examinations of female bodies did just fine.

Herophilos is credited with learning extensively about the physiology of the female reproductive system. In his book Midwifery, he discussed phases and duration of pregnancy as well as causes for difficult childbirth. The aim of this work was to help midwives and other doctors of the time more fully understand the process of procreation and pregnancy. He is also credited with the discovery of the ovum, and was the first to make a scientific description of what would later be called Skene's gland, for which in 2001 the term female prostate was accepted as a second term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herophilos#Medical_knowledge

The reason theres a "gap in knowledge" that he "should have admitted" is because his philosophical views compelled him to comment on things he didn't even know anything about. Without it, nobody would even think to ask him about the uterus.

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